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The Road To
True Peace Lead*
Through Mary
Vol. Ill, No. 48
Cleveland Educator
To Speak At Labor
Day Mass Monday
Father Francis W. Carney, S.T.D., director of the Institute
of Social Education at St. John College. Cleveland, will give
the principal address at the tenth annual Labor Day Mass at
10 a. m. Sept. 6 in St. Joseph Cathedral.
Bishop Ready will preside at the
Solemn High Mass, Coram Episco
po. Msgr. Paul O’Dea will be the
assistant priest to Bishop Ready
and Msgr. William E. Kappes and
Msgr. Edward F. Spiers will be his
deacons of honor.
The Mass will be celebrated by
Msgr. Roland T. Winel, Chancellor
of the Diocese. Assisting Monsig
nor Winel in the Mass will be Fa
ther Augustine Winkler, Deacon,
and Father Lawrence Corcoran,
sub-deacon. The minor ministers
will be the seminarians from St.
Charles Seminary.
Father F. Thomas Gallen, profes
sor of Church Music at St. Charles
Seminary, will direct the choir.
Civic officials, as well as repre
sentatives of the AFL. CIO and in
dependent unions, will attend the
Mass to ask God s blessings on the
working man.
The speaker, in addition to his
position as head of the adult edu
Father Carney
cation program at St. John s Col
lege, is also a professor of philoso
phy at the college, director of
Family Life in the Cleveland Dio
cese, and moderator of the Cath
olic Physicians’ and Dentists’ Guild
in Cleveland.
Active in social work in the
Diocese, Father Carney is a
member of the Social Protec
tion Committee and the Adult
To the Reverend Clergy, Religious
•nd Faithful of the Diocese of Columbus.
My beloved Brethren:
Education Committee of the
Cleveland Welfare Federation.
Prior to his ordination in 1940,
Father Carney attended John Car
roll University, St. Mary Seminary,
Cleveland, and Gregorian Universi
ty in Rome. He earned a doctorate
in Sacred Theology at the Catho
lic University in Washington in
1943.
In a letter encouraging attend
ance at the special Mass, and em
phasizing the spiritual significance
of the event, Bishop Ready declar
ed that Labor Day is an appropri
ate occasion to pray for God's
blessings on all who work and who
hire labor, to the end that they
may live and work together as
brothers in the love of Jesus
Christ, our Saviour. We cannot ex
pect God's blessings if we do not
keep God's law of love toward our
neighbor.”
Bishop Ready also reviewed the
purposes of the religious celebra
tion during the past decade. He as
serted:
‘'During those ten years
through the Holy Mast we have
petitioned God's guidance for
the leaders of our Country. We
have asked Hit blessing on the
homes and families of the men
and women in the shops and
mills and mines and offices and
on the farms of our land whoso
skill and labor contribute so
much to the peace and prosperi
ty (of the whole world. We have
endeavored by these annual cel
ebrations to give a religious sig
nificance to the holiday and
thereby put in true focus the
unity of human society.
“There is no room for class con
flict in a real brotherhood. We
have wished, too. that all workers
be regarded according to the
standards of Christian justice and
in the light of their dignity as
children of God It is good to have
these annual religious ceremonies
as a means of getting men to think
of their dignity and destiny, of
their basic obligations to their
families and to the communities
of which they are a part.
“It is well to have emphasized
that the great evil of the day is
materialism and to recall the eter
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Official
School doors will open Tuesday, September 7th. for the growing
legion of youth. Our Catholic schools will receive more than 25000
sons and daughters of the families of this Community. Of this num
ber 20,045 will attend elementary schools and 5041 young men and
women will be enrolled in high schools. A force of almost one thou
sand Priests and Sisters and lay teachers stand ready to serve these
youth in a very important period of their lives.
These statistics indicate the vast scope of our educational system
but they do not tell the story of the new’ schools provided nor
facilities enlarged to receive 1200 children who begin their educa
tion this September. The Reverend Pastors of the Diocese and the
devoted people of the Parishes know the sacrifices involved in this
expansion. The Sisters and teachers will soon take up the heavy
burden of giving instruction to this army of youth.
A further quick glance at the statistics brings out the fact
that our Catholic people are giving to Columbus and the other
cities of the Diocese an annual financial contribution of more than
four and one-half million dollars. It would take that amount of
added tax money annually to teach the Catholic youth who now
receive their full Christian education in our religious schools. It
does not include the other millions which have built and maintained
our school system.
Indeed, my beloved Brethren, this indicates not only the vast
scope of our schoool system but it puts in capital letters the great
contribution of Priests and Sisters to our parish and diocesan schools.
The building, development, and maintenance of our schools
have been made possible by the faith, and understanding of our
loyal and generous Catholic people. Pastors, teachers and parents
have cooperated to make our system of education the outstanding
mark of American Catholic life. It is the living monument of our
love of God and the imperishable evidence of our patriotic devotion
to our Country.
I urge you, my Brethren, to regard well this great treasure of
Catholic life in this nation. Support generously your schools and
cooperate in promoting their programs for youths’ spiritual and
material welfare.
With my blessing,
Statistics cannot record the true value of our schools in bring
ing youth to the love and service of Our Lord. Jesus Christ. They
cannot measure the high quality of moral training which boys and
girls receive from religious instruction and from the holy example of
Pastors and Sisters. They cannot sound the depths of sanctity which
frequent reception of the Sacraments and presence at Holy Mass
produce in the lives of our Catholic students.
But these are the essential necessities of life. No parent worthy
of the name will hesitate to give his child the knowledge of God
which leads to His loyal service nor to provide the means for that
child's fulfilling of his destiny here and hereafter.
I beg you to join me in thanking God for the heritage that is
ours and of beseeching His blessing on our schools throughout the
new year. MaV Mary, our Immaculate Mother, guard and guide the
devoted teachers and beloved children of our schools and lead them
in holiness to her Son, Our Savior, Jesus Christ.
August 25, 1954
Devotedly in Christ
MICHAEL READY
Bishop of Columbus
Negro Priest
Sees End Of
Segregation
NEW YORK (NC) A Ne
gro priest, born in the North and
now stationed in the deep South,
foresees the end of racial segrega
tion.
Father Albert McKnight, C.S.Sp.,
a native of Brooklyn. NA'., has
been a curate in St. Paul's parish,
Lafayette, La., for a year. In that
time he has revised some of his
opinions about the South. He has
come to see the area as a challeng
ing field for a priest, particularly a
Negro priest, he stated at the Cath
olic Interracial Forum here.
“To understand the racial situa
tion in the South you must keep
in mind the basic concept that peo
ple don’t like change,” Father Mc
Knight said. Although racial preju
dices are “deeply ingrained” in the
South, “many classical forms of
segregation are breaking down.”
As an indication of the trend
toward change there, he pointed
out that the other two priests at
St. Paul's are white. At the time
of his appointment there was
some doubt in the minds of his
superiors that the local commun
ity would accept the idea of
white and Negro priests living in
the same rectory. ‘'The people
took it in stride," he said.
“It is terrible to see the effects
of segregation among Negroes,”
Father McKnight declared. “It has
engendered an inferiority complex
which often causes them to lower
themselves in their own estima
tion.”
In summary, Father McKnight
said he was hopeful that the ma
jor problems of segregation in the
South will be solved within the
next ten years.
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RKO Begins
Legal Fight To
End Censorship
BOSTON, Mass. (NC)
RKO Radio Pictures has chal
lenged the constitutionality of
censorship laws in three suits
filed here after Boston banned
the producer’s condemned
movie, “French Line.”
In all three cases the com
plaints use recent Supreme
Court movie decisions as a
basis for charging that the
censor laws are too vague and in
definite. The complaints also
charge that freedom of speech has
been violated and claims that all
censorship of motion pictures is
unconstitutional.
Attorneys for the film produc
ing firm indicated that the suits
may ultimately be carried to the
Supreme Court, “and should we
win them, the censorship laws of
this state could be wiped out.”
The first suit attacks the consti
tutionality of the “Sunday laws”
which exist throughout the State
of Massachusettts the second suit
is directed against the Mayor of
Lynn, Mass., w ho forced withdrawal
of “French Line” there and the
third is directed against Boston’s
censorship board which includes
Boston's mayor and police commis.
sioner.
The “Sunday laws” limit Sunday
entertainment to shows “in keep
ing with the character of the day
and not inconsistent with the
due observance thereof.” "French
Line” has not been allowed a show
ing on Sundays throughout Massa
chusetts. The film was banned
completely from Bo«ton.
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Vatican Official,
Ex-U. S. Resident,
Dies Suddenly
VATICAN CITY—(NC) Arch
bishop Filippo Bernardini. 69. sec
retary of the Sacred Congregation
for the Propagation of the Faith
died suddenly (on August 25) of a
heart attack while vacationing in
his native town of Pieve di Ussita.
He was for 19 years a member of
the faculty of the Catholic Univer.
sity of America.
Archbishop Bernardini went to
Washington, D. C„ in 1914. as as
sistant professor of canon law at
the Catholic University. He event
ually became dean of the faculty of
canon law before leaving Washing
ton in 1933 to become Apostolic
Delegate to Australia.
Archbishop Bernardini was a
close personal friend of Bishop
Ready. The two prelates’ work
brought them together many times
both in this country and abroad.
It was Archbishop Bernardini
who conferred the rank of Domes
tic Prelate upon Monsignor Her
man Mattingly, pastor of Holy
Rosary Church, Columbus, in Ge
neva. Switzerland, after that honor
had been bestowed upon him by
Pope Pius XII.
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Classics To Be Published
NEW YORK (NC) The new
Doubleday Image Books, hailed by
many Catholic magazines and pa
pers as a maior even' in Catholic
letters, will be published October
14.
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Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, September 3, 1954
communism, the Social Action De
partment of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference warned.
The department's annual l^abor
Day statement asked Catholics,
both in management and labor, to
place their efforts for a better eco
nomic order under the special pa
tronage of St. Pius X. the recently
canonized Pope, who had been ded
icated to social reform.
It said that “Labor Day has al
most come to be regarded as an
unofficial holy day in the United
Slates.” Attendance at Labor Day
Masses by thousands of employers
and workers in the nation's major
industrial cities was called “a sin
cere expression of religious faith”
rather than “an empty gesture or
a mere formality.”
Tha Labor Day Stafament call
ad for forthright experimant in
tha diraction of cooperation on
an industry-wide basis and for
further development of self
government within industries At
the same time it scored "a ten
dency to overemphasize the role
of government" in economic
planning.
Suggesting “the way in which
we ought to proceed,” the state
ment said, “the stage is set for a
new and better era of labor-man
agement cooperation baed upon
our essentially sound tradition ot
collective bargaining.”
Progress Urged
It traced the following develop
ment in U.S. social reconstruction,
urging “greater and more rapid
progress” in:
—Collective bargaining which
will “quite possibly determine the
fate of our economic system as a
whole” as well as the fate of many
other countries. Collective bargain
ing is now ‘'on the threshold of
maturity.” tUe statement said, and
its range Is constantly being ex
panded beyond such problems as
wages, hours, and working condi
tions.
—Self-government within indus
tries, a gradual development re
sulting from collective bargaining,
is becoming industry-wide ir scope.
Labor and management, through
mutual agreement, have come to
recognize that each concern is a
small community and that there is
also a community of industries.
“Cooperation within industries for
the general welfare should be
matched by cooperation among all
industries to the same end.’ the
statement said.
Aeic School Addition Dedicated At Mt. Vernon
Bishop Ready is shown above as he officiated at the dedication ceremonies of the new $200,000 six
room addition to St. Vincent de Paul School, Mt. Vernon, Sunday. The dedication ceremonies followed
the 11:30 a. m. Mass which was celebrated by the Bishop. The new addition provides facilities for
300 more students. Assisting Bishop Ready in the ceremonies were Father Ambrose Freund, pastor of
Sacred Heart Parish, New Philadelphia, deacon, and Father Hubert Rubeck, administrator of St. Luke
Parish, Danville, subdeacon. Father Eugene Dunn, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish is at the extreme
right.
NCWC Labor Day Statement
Cites Need Eor Social Justice
WASHINGTON (NC) Labor Day is almost an “unofficial holy dav” that calls for
action on the part of all Americans who want social justice, a special Labor Day statement has
declared.
And Labor Day, 1954, demands an all-out effort for a full-fledged, industry-wide sys
tem of labor-management cooperation, the statement said. a
U S. leadership in social justice is a “desperately important” weapon Against world
—I n u str y-w ide cooperation
should increase “for the good of
the whole industry and its people
and for the good of the public that
uses their goods or services.” Ex
amples of this are growing in
number, the statement said, and
"deserve commendation as pioneers
of a better future.”
It said that "there is reason
to hope that, with a decent min
imum of good will on the part of
organized labor and organized
management, the institution of
collective bargaining will grad
ually blossom into a full-fledged
system of cooperation on an in
dustry-wide basis by business or
ganizations and unions and that
this system will help to make
American economic life serve
the purposes of the moral law
Diocesan School Enrollment Stands At
All-Time Record Level of 25,000 Pupils
more effectively. It is our opin
ion that the time is ripe for a
generous and forthright experi
ment in this direction."
The statement emphasized that
responsibility lor applying the
principles of morality to economic
life belongs primarily to labor and
management “cooperating with one
another through their own free as
sociations.” It said that in the Unit
ed States too many economists and
legislators assume that govern
ment controls must do the job
“more or less exclusively.”
“The primary emphasis ought to
be placed on the cooperative de
cision-making of labor organiza
tions and business associations
w ith governmental action being
held to a secondary role and a
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Pictured above are three of the priests who will serve on the faculty of the new Bishop
Watterson High School, when doors open Sept. 13 to a freshman class.. They are (left to right) Father
John Tague, S.T.L., Father Donald Schulz, M.A., and Father Peter Essman, S.T.D. These priests in ad
dition to the Dominican Sisters from St. Mary of the Springs, and lay teachers, compose the faculty of
the new school. The principal is Msgr. Edward F. Spiers, Ph. D.
Father Bennett Applegate, super
intendent of schools, estimated
that 19.045 pupils would enroll in
elementary schools, an increase of
1600 over last year. This year's
high school population will be ap
proximately 5,040 students, some
600 more than in September. 1953.
The 25.000 enrollment figure
represents an increase of 10.675.
including 8,345 grade school pupils,
in the past decade
Bishop Ready, recognizing the
need of new and expanded
schools, began early to provide
for this increase Eight new ele
mentary schools have been estab
lished in the past 10 years* and
high schools in Portsmouth and
Zanesville have been consolidat
ed. In all, 91 classrooms have
been added.
The 1954-55 school year will wit
ness the completion of seven new
schools. Foremost among these is
the new $1,000,000 Bishop Watter
son High School, which will ac
cept a fieshman class Sept. 13.
Another new high school ready
for occupancy is the $235,000 St.
Mary’s School, in Immaculate Con
ception Parish. Dennjy-on.
On the elementary level, new
schools are in construction in St.
Michael s Parish. Morthington. and
Holy Name and St. Gabriel's in Co
lumbus. The first floor of the $272.
500, 10-classroom St. Michaels
School will be ready tor occupan-.
cy next week, and the finishing
touches will be put on the building
by the end of September.
The $184,869 Holy Name School,
which will have 8 classrooms, will
be completed late this fall. St. Ga
briel's new 8-classroom school will
open its doors for the first time
Tuesday, although the building will
Father Cui ran had been granted
a year’s leave of absence from the
diocese by Bish,
op Ready to
teach at the Uni.
versify of Lou
vain in Belgium.
The day-long
program, to be
held on the
Fordham Uni
versity campus,
will be conduct
ed in conjunc
tion with the
52nd annual
meeting of the
Father Curran
American Psjcho-
There I* No
acation From
Your Religion
Price Ton Cent* $3.00 A Year
Figures Denote 10,000
Increase In Past Decade
More than 25,000 children an all-time record number
are expected to enroll in the greatly enlarged diocesan
school system, when the school bells signal the beginning of
a new- term next week.
Opening day for elementary schools is Tuesday, while
practically all high schools will begin classes Wednesday.
This enrollment of children in
the Diocesan schools marks a sav
ing for the State of nearly $4,500.
000 for pupil training alone in one
year.
not be fully completed until about
two weeks after the start of the
new term.
A fourth new school also is plan
ned—this one in the newly-form
ed St. Agnes Parish. Opening of
that school is tentatively schedul
ed for September, 1955.
Current projects, either in the
planning oi construction stage, in
volve additions to Immaculate
Conception, St. Leo's and St
Agatha's Schools in Columbus. The
4-classroom $240,000 addition at
Immaculate Conception will be
completed Feb. 1, and a similar
addition at St. l^eo’s will be ready
for occupancy in mid-October. In
the preliminary’ planning stage is
an extensive addition to St. Aga
tha's School.
The two-story, six room addition
to St ’Vincent de Paul s School. Mt.
Vernon has already been complet
ed.
During the scholastic year,
1953-54, $163,335 was expended
in the renovation and addition
of classroom facilities. During
the current year, the work un
der construction in the ele
mentary and secondary schools
in the diocese is estimated at
$2,027,222.
Besides this investment, the op
erating expenses of these 85
schools in the diocese indicate that
the parochial schools save Ohio
taxpayers a tremendous expense
each year.
According to statistics furnished
by the State Department of Educa
tion. it co-1- he state $309.65 a
year per high school pupil, and
$184.15 a year per grade school
pupil.
Thus, the parochial school sys
tem in the diocese saves the
state $3,506,136 for grade school
children and $928,300 for high
school pupils in a single year.
Father Curran To Open
Psychologists* Meeting
Father Charles A. Curran, professor of psychology at St.
Charles Seminary in Columbus and President of the American
Catholic Psychological Association will fly back to this
country this week to attend the psychological organization’s
eighth annual meeting Sept. 7 in New York
logical Association, being held in
New York City from September
3 to 8.
Activities will begin with Mass
in the Fordham University Church
celebrated by Father Curran.
The opening session will be ad
dressed by Father Laurence J. Mc
Ginley. S.J.. president of Fordham
University. A panel discussion on
“Catholics in Psychology.” presid
ed over by Professor Lester N.
Recktenwald of Villanova Univer
sity, will include: Father Henryk
Misiak. assistant professor of psy
chology at Fordham university, who
will discuss “What Catholics Are
Doing in Psychology at Home and
Abroad Dr. Virginia M. Staudt,
of the psychology department of
Hunter College. N. Y.. speaking on
“Opportunities In the Several
Areas of Research and Service”
and Sister Mary Amatora, of St.
Francis College. Fort Wayne. Ind.,
whose topic will be “The Encour
agement of Leadership in Psychol
ogy Among Catholics.”
A business meeting at which new
officers will be elected will fol
low the opening session.
The afternoon session will in
clude a symposium on “Psychother
apy and Religion” w»th Father Noel
Mailloux, O.P.. director of the In
stitute of Psychology, University
of Montreal Father Joseph .Kee
gan. S.J., chairman of the psychol
ogy department, Fordham Univer
sity: Dr. Harry V. McNeill, of the
U.S. Department of Health. Educa
tion and Welfare and Thomas
Thale, D. of the Department of
Neurology and Psychiatry, School
of Medicine, St. Louis University.
The program will conclude with
dinner at which Father Curran will
deliver the presidential address on
“The Catholic's Role Scientific
Psychology.”
Founded in 1947. the American
Catholic Psychological Association
seeks to interpret to Catholics the
meaning of modern psychology, to
advance its acceptance in Catholic
circles and to work toward the in
tegration of psychology with Cath.
ohc thought and practice.